Here's Everything You Need To Know About The Foreign Policy Plans Of Barack...
While the economy and jobs remain the bread-and-butter issues of the 2012 presidential race, tonight's final debate will focus on topics that remain important to voters deciding on who will be their...
View ArticleChina's GDP Will Exceed America's In The 21st Century
This is an election season, so all hope of intelligent policy discourse has been abandoned in favor of the partisan soundbite. One side, uniquely brilliant, will magically solve our nation's problems...
View ArticleHere's The Chart That Mitt Romney Made With His Hands
During the Presidential debate, Mitt Romney hit out at China, and made a chart with his hands, comparing the level of imports from China and exports to China. Here's the actual chart showing how much...
View ArticleRomney Can't Afford To Do Much More China-Bashing
As the US presidential candidates crank up the heat on one another, China is increasingly caught in the middle. Neither President Obama nor Mitt Romney want to be portrayed as lacking in conviction,...
View ArticleCHINA: 'Willing Or Not, The Next US President Shall Have To Tone Down His...
Beijing urged the US presidential candidates on Tuesday to refrain from inflaming tensions with China after President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney vowed to get tough with the Asian giant....
View ArticleFast Food Chains Can't Figure Out Chinese Breakfast
LIKE everyone else, Chinese people love fast food. Western purveyors of salty, fatty delectables such as McDonald’s and KFC serve up vast quantities of lunch and dinner to the world’s most populous...
View ArticleThere's A Good Reason Why Chinese College Graduates Are Applying To Be Street...
A recent advertisement posted online by Harbin Human Resources and Social Security Bureau (HHRSSB) in China was looking for 457 sanitation worker positions — vehicle drivers, vehicle maintenance...
View ArticleChina Tech Mogul Explains How To Make The Country A Hotbed For Innovation
A common complaint about China is that while it may be great at copying products (and sometimes not even so great at that), it will never be a real innovator and develop new products. But Kai Fu Lee,...
View ArticleWe Need To Stop The China Bashing And Start Discussing The Trade Deficit
Paul Krugman and Ezra Klein both say, following Joe Gagnon, that the time for criticizing China for "currency manipulation" has passed. This is partly true in the sense that China's currency has risen...
View ArticleSPOTTED: Someone Did Their Best To Ruin An Extremely Rare Aston Martin
There's a reason most supercars are red, yellow, or silver: Those colors look good. So it's a mystery as to why the owner of this Aston Martin One-77 went for a brown paint job. As the name hints,...
View ArticleJapan Pulls Back From 'World's Factory' As China Tensions Simmer
Almost a quarter of Japanese manufacturers are rethinking their investment plans in China and some may shift future production elsewhere after the spike in tensions between Asia's two largest...
View ArticleThe Most Important Economic Report Of The Week Will Come From China Tonight
All eyes will be on China tonight. "This week’s most closely watched data release will be Wednesday’s “flash” estimate of China’s manufacturing PMI for October," according to Dave Lutz of Stifel...
View ArticleChinese Flash PMI Jumps To A 3-Month High — And The Aussie Dollar Is Shooting Up
Chinese Flash PMI has risen to 49.1, a 3-month high. 49.1 is still contraction, but it would appear that the pace of contraction is slowing, consistent with the idea that there is some kind of firming...
View ArticleWe've Hit A New Low For China Bashing
NEW HAVEN – As America’s election season nears its finish, the debate seems to have come unhinged. Nowhere is that more evident than in the fixation on China – singled out by both President Barack...
View ArticleChinese Dissident Artist Ai Weiwei Releases Gangnam Style Parody
Ai Weiwei, the recently jailed Chinese artist, has today released his parody of South Korean pop hit "Gangnam Style". The video appears pretty low budget — the song hasn't been re-recorded and the...
View ArticleRussian Officials Need To Stop Wearing Incredibly Expensive Watches
Earlier this year we brought you the story of Russian Orthodox Church Leader and his mysterious disappearing $30,000 watch. Patriarch Kirill's team had apparently Photoshopped the Breguet watch out a...
View ArticleCHART OF THE DAY: Chinese Stocks Are Signaling A Big Jump In GDP Growth
Economists have long debated whether China's slowing economy was headed for a hard or soft landing. But in recent weeks, many have noticed the "green shoots" coming out of the world's second largest...
View ArticleThe Army Needs To Brace For Change As The Pentagon Heads To The Pacific
With the war in Afghanistan winding down, the U.S. Army’s senior leadership has started taking deliberate steps to ensure the service’s viability in future conflicts, particularly those in the Pacific...
View ArticleSTEVE WYNN: A Very Well-Connected Source Told Me Something Very Bullish Is In...
Steve Wynn just led and completed the Wynn Resorts earnings webcast. Minutes ago during the Q&A, Wynn shared some details of a conversation he had with a high ranking Chinese official. According...
View ArticleBII MOBILE INSIGHTS: Holiday Buyers Are Taking It Mobile
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